3 simple steps to really transform your life:
My boxing coach asked me which supplements he should start taking. With the New Year, everyone is thinking about health
We talked about a couple of different supplements that are popular (NAD, NR/NMN, different vitamins, etc etc). But then I asked him what he really wanted.
He said: I want to feel better and have more energy
Told him: Then supplements is the wrong place to start.
Do these three things and watch your life transform:
1. Go to bed by 10pm
2. Don't eat 2-3 hours before 10pm
3. Get 30 minutes solar exposure daily (10-15 mins at sunrise/wake up and 10-15 mins midday vitamin D)
While the three seem trivial and simple, they are anything but. Why?
- By locking in a consistent bed time and eating window, we are optimizing his sleep and thus flooding his body with essential hormones during the night. These hormones will be more effective than any supplement.
- By stopping to eat 2-3 hours before bed, we are facilitating better leptin and insulin signaling at night. We are more insulin sensitive during the early parts of the day and less so at night. Eating late at night is a metabolic and circadian mismatch.
- By getting the morning sunlight he will setup his circadian clock and have more energy during the day. By getting the midday sun he will activate the key human protein POMC, which regulates stress, mood, and libido. (yes he will get sufficient vitamin d but thats secondary)
By the time I finished explaining to him that TIME and LIGHT drive all biology his jaw was on the floor. He realized he had been running his biology wrong this whole time.
Many of these diseases we are suffering from didn't exist before 1890..before the electrical grid. We aren't going to become Amish, but we must be stewards of our light.